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Mohamad Ballan Curriculum Vitae Assistant Professor Department of History Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348 Mohamad.Ballan@Stonybrook.Edu 1 Mohamad Ballan Curriculum Vitae Assistant Professor Department of History Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348 [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2019–present Assistant Professor of History, Stony Brook University 2018–2019 Junior Fellow, Dartmouth Society of Fellows. Dartmouth College EDUCATION PhD, 2019 Department of History, University of Chicago Dissertation: “The Scribe of the Alhambra: Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib, Sovereignty and History in Nasrid Granada” Committee: David Nirenberg (chair), John Woods, Maribel Fierro, Ahmed El Shamsy Comprehensive exam Medieval Iberia, Pre-Modern Islamic History, and Early Modern Europe fields: MA, 2010 Social Sciences, University of Chicago BA, 2008 History Honors, University of British Columbia RESEARCH INTERESTS Medieval Europe; Mediterranean history; borderlands and frontier history; political thought; Islamic history; medieval Iberia; intercommunal relations; intellectual networks; historiography; Late Antiquity PUBLICATIONS Articles 2020 “Genealogy, Lineage and Ethnocultural Identity in Nasrid Granada.” In De sangre y leche. Raza y religión en el mundo ibérico/Of Blood and Milk: Race and Religion in the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Worlds (Madrid, 2020), ed. Mercedes García-Arenal (forthcoming) 2010 “Fraxinetum: An Islamic Frontier State in Tenth-Century Provence,” Comitatus 41 (2010): 23–76 Book reviews 2015 Review of Oppressed in the Land? Fatwas on Muslims Living under Non-Muslim Rule from the Middle Ages to the Present by Alan Verskin. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 74, no. 1 (April 2015), pp. 169–172 2 2015 Review of Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choice of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy by Jonathan A.C. Brown. Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 1, no. 3 (2015) 2015 Review of Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad by Natana Delong- Bas, Ballandalus (May 16) 2013 Review of Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, ed. Roel Meijer, Ballandalus (May 10) Online Publications and Public Scholarship 2019 “Il-Kantilena: A 15th-century Poem in Medieval Maltese,” Ballandalus (April 8) 2019 “Modern Monuments and Medieval Mythologies: The Statue of Avengalvón in Burgos,” Ballandalus (April 2) 2019 “Review of ‘Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time’ Exhibit (Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University),” Ballandalus (April 1) 2019 “650th Anniversary of the Assassination of Pedro I of Castile-León (r. 1350-1369),” Ballandalus (March 30) 2019 “The Iconography of Royal Power in 12th-c. Norman Sicily,” Ballandalus (January 30) 2019 “The Arabic Manuscripts of Manuel Bacas Merino (fl. 1800),” Ballandalus (January 27) 2019 “Qur’an Codex of Marinid Sultan Abū Ya’qūb Yūsuf (r. 1286-1307),” Ballandalus (January 27) 2018 “Portraits of Moroccan Ambassadors in Early Modern England,” Ballandalus (December 10) 2018 “The Last Almohads? Two Descendants of the Almohad Caliphs in 14th-c. Nasrid Granada,” Ballandalus (December 10) 2016 “A Fragment of the Lost History of al-Raqīq al-Qayrawānī (d. ca. 418/1028),” Ballandalus (August 17) 2016 “27 Prominent Medieval Andalusi Women,” Ballandalus (August 6) 2016 “Sectarianism and Violence in 11th-c. North Africa: The Anti-Ismaili Massacre of 1016,” Ballandalus (July 31) 2016 “A Musing on Moroccan Manuscript Research,” American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain Members’ Blog (July 25) 2016 “An Andalusi Mudéjar in 14th-c. Constantinople: The Travels of Ibn al-Sabbah,” Ballandalus (July 24) 2016 “Bibliography of Translated Texts from Medieval/Early Modern Iberia and North Africa,” Ballandalus (March 20) 2016 “‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadhani: Intellectual, Mystic and Martyr,” Ballandalus (March 10) 2016 “The Reign of Ibn Hud (r. 1228-1238) according to Abu al-Walid ibn al-Hajj (d. 1318),” Ballandalus (February 24) 2015 “The Commemoration of the Martyrdom of al-Husayn b. Ali (d. 680) in al-Andalus,” Ballandalus (October 23) 2015 “Ahmad Sirhindī, Akbari Universalism and Islamic Orthodoxy in 16th/17th c. Mughal India,” Ballandalus (September 19) 2015 “Al-Madrasa al-Nasriyya in Granada: Knowledge and Power in 14th- & 15th-century al-Andalus,” Ballandalus (September 16) 2015 “Notes on Identity in the Medieval Islamic World,” Ballandalus (September 13) 2015 “Famous Historical Muslims of Hellenic/Greek Origin,” Ballandalus (August 8) 2015 “Intermarriage between Muslim and Christian Dynasties in Early Medieval Iberia (711-1100),” Ballandalus (August 4) 2015 “The Taifa Kingdoms (ca. 1010-1090): Ethnic and Political Tensions in al-Andalus during the 11th Century,” Ballandalus (August 3) 3 2015 “Majrit/Mayrit: The Andalusi Muslim Heritage of Medieval Madrid,” Ballandalus (July 20) 2015 “The Royal Edict of Expulsion (1609) and the Last Andalusi Muslims (“Moriscos”) of Spain,” Ballandalus (June 29) 2015 “An Andalusi Muslim in Early Modern Europe: Shihab al-Din Ahmad al-Hajari’s Description of the 17th-Century Netherlands,” Ballandalus (June 28) 2015 “Castilian “Reconquista,” Ottoman Expansion and the Christianization of al- Andalus,” Ballandalus (June 5) 2015 “Mongol-Papal Encounter: Letter Exchange between Pope Innocent IV and Güyük Khan in 1245-1246,” Ballandalus (June 1) 2015 “Nader Shah Afshar (r. 1736-1747): A Short Overview of the Career of an 18th- Century Iranian Conqueror,” Ballandalus (May 28) 2015 “Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) and the Rise of the Almohads,” Ballandalus (May 19) 2015 “The Alcazaba of Almería: A Masterpiece of Islamic Military Architecture,” Ballandalus (May 9) 2015 “The Tomb of Ferdinand III (d. 1252) in Seville: Emblem of Convivencia or Symbol of Reconquista?” Ballandalus (April 22) 2014 “Abu Bakr al-Turtushi’s “Siraj al-Muluk”: A Masterpiece of Andalusi Political Philosophy,” Ballandalus (December 8) 2014 “The Scholar and the Sultan: A Translation of the Historic Encounter between Ibn Khaldun and Timur,” Ballandalus (August 30) 2014 “The Islamic State’s (ISIS) Destruction of Shrines in Historical Perspective,” Ballandalus (August 5) 2014 “The Wahhabi Sack of Karbala (1802 A.D.),” Ballandalus (August 2) 2014 “Beyond Tolerance and Intolerance: Deconstructing the Myth of the Islamic Golden Age, Jadaliyya (April 3) 2014 “The Tibyan of Abd Allah ibn Buluggin (r. 1073-1090): A Fascinating Glimpse into the World of Eleventh-Century Iberia,” Ballandalus (February 15) 2013 “Famous Historical Muslims of African/Black Origin,” Ballandalus (November 19) 2013 “Prophetic Traditions about the Virtues of the Berbers in the North African Ibadi Tradition,” Ballandalus (September 19) 2013 “Poetic Epigraphy of the Alhambra,” Ballandalus (September 19) 2013 “The Rise of the Nasrids: The Origins of the Kingdom of Granada (1238-1273),” Ballandalus (September 18) 2013 “Abd al-Rahman III, Orosius’ Historiae Contra Paganos, and the Byzantine Embassy to Cordoba in the Tenth Century,” Ballandalus (May 30) 2012 “Rustamid Dynasty: An Ibadi State in North Africa (776-909),” Ballandalus (December 7) 2012 “Almería,” Ballandalus (August 12) 2012 “The Nizari Isma’ili Assassins: The Story behind Ubisoft’s “Assassin’s Creed,” Ballandalus (August 8) Blog: https://ballandalus.wordpress.com/ AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2019 Gardiner Travel Award (SUNY-Stony Brook) 2018–2019 Dartmouth Society of Fellows 2017–2018 ACLS-Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship 4 2017 Middle East Studies Association Wadad Kadi Travel Fellowship 2015–2016 University of Chicago Social Sciences Division Travel Fellowship 2015–2016 Arnaldo Momigliano Dissertation Research Travel Award 2015 Cochrane Travel Grant SELECTED PRESENTATIONS Invited Talks 2020 “The Sword and the Pen in Late Medieval Granada,” Rhode Island Medieval Circle Lecture, Brown University, Providence, February 13 2020 “The View from the Other Edge: Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib (d. 1374) and the Foundations of Early Modernity in the Islamic World,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, January 13 2019 “‘The Last of the Himyarites”: ‘Urubiyya, Community and Sovereignty in the Medieval Islamic West,” Georgetown University, Washington D.C., November 25 2019 “Genealogy and Lineage in Nasrid Granada,” Race, Identity and Alterity, in Late 2019 Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (and Beyond), Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, New York, November 22 “Beyond 1492: Conversion, Expulsion, and the Jewish and Muslim Communities of Late Medieval Spain,” Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, July 23 2018 “Lord of the Sword and Pen: Professional Rivalry and Urban Politics in Nasrid Granada,” Middle Eastern Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, October 4 2018 “The Scribe of the Alhambra,” New York University, New York City, February 8 2015 “Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib and the Nasrid Dynasty: An Exploration of the Relationship between Dynastic Ideology and Historical Writing in Late 14th-Century Nasrid Granada,” Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom, Consejo Superio de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, November 10 Conferences 2019 “‘The Last of the Himyarites’: Pre-Islamic Genealogy and Royal Legitimacy in the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada,” Middle East Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, November 16 2019 “An Ansari Caliphate? Court Secretaries and the Articulation of Dynastic Ideology in the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1238–1492),” American Oriental Society, Chicago, March 15 2019 “Genealogy and Lineage in Fourteenth-Century Nasrid Granada,” De sangre y leche. Raza y religión en el mundo ibérico (final de la Edad Media - inicios de la Moderna)/Of Blood and Milk: Race and Religion in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Worlds, Madrid,
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